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NICARAGUA TO ARGENTINA

Abe Ramirez has made it his goal to ride a bike from Nicaragua to the Southern tip of Argentina and embrace every opportunity to surf, skate, ride, and connect with the local people. He is a great dude with a passion for adventure. Below is a journal entry and a selection of photos from his travels.

Its been seven months. Hot weather, cold showers, aggressive mosquitos, wild animals, dense jungle, and its all been an extraordinary adventure. Im sitting in what I would like to call my temporary office, in a small community tienda, (store) on a peak of a Panamanian mountain jungle. How did I get here? Well, its funny. I was just like you working a full time job to support my self and racking up my debt on student loans. Not to say my way of living is any better, its just what I prefer to be my lifestyle right now. I didn’t wake up one day to decide I would be riding a bicycle through central and south america routed to Ushuaia Argentina. Instead I was on a two week surf vacation with a couple of friends from Santa Barbara. They left and I stayed. The freedom you expirience when you are traveling is unlike anything I have ever experienced before. The culture is different, the people are different, they speak differently, the smells, the scenery, the food its all strange at first. I was learning so much about myself and other people in a rapid rate I thought It would be foolish to go back home and chase the routine. I decided to stay, but for what? I didn’t know what that was until I met a fellow traveler and good friend of mine, Jaryd Adair. I met Jaryd in Nicaragua, San Juan Del Sur in between my two week interim. I had learned that he had ridden his bicycle from Calgary Canada to Nicaragua in about eight months. I was blown away,“ I didn’t even know people do that! ”, I thought to myself. That was the beginning of my seven month to date bicycle journey and here I am in Panama. I stayed in Nicaragua planning, and gathering gear to begin the trek for three months, It has been nearly four months riding now. To save some time and to keep this article short I thought it would be a good idea to list some notable moments from the road.